do my genealogy

The only thing that has gotten me through the past six weeks (since my dad passed away), has been looking at the past, distant past. I have become obsessed with genealogy, but not just mine, my husband’s too!

... i got the basics into a spreadsheet showing at least as far back as my great grandparents… i was able to get back as far as great great grandfather in one case.

though, i already know that i’m the great(x10) granddaughter of Miles Standish and John Alden… someone else did that genealogy for us… but i’m intersted in learning about the other side of the family as well.

I am a genealogist, a person who follows family lines and digs up those roots. It is amazing to find cousins who you look like. It is satisfying to be able to say my ancestors came from here or there and this is why they came to America, or why they had this occupation. To me, it is almost incomprehinsable to know that anyone of those hundreds of ancestors, just one, would have married someone else, or died in childhood, or had some other life altering event that did or did not happen that I would not be here. That I would not be who I am today.

I need to get back to that, it has been two months since I’ve seen a census record or ordered a birth certificate.